Approval of a site plan for a new McDonald’s restaurant was given Tuesday by the Tecumseh Planning Commission. The plan is to tear down the current 3,944 square-foot building at 1206 W. Chicago Blvd., and replace it with a 4,273-square-foot, drive-through restaurant.

Brad Raymond, Tecumseh building services director, said the request to rezone the property from single family residential to general business was given preliminary approval by the planning commission and will come before the city council at the March 4 meeting. The company presented the site plan Tuesday and, following a public hearing, it was approved on a unanimous vote.

“They indicated before the planning commission meeting that if everything goes as planned, they intend to have demolition and construction completed by Memorial (Day) weekend,” Raymond said. “If everything doesn’t go well, it could be August when they start. They told us it would be a 70-day process.”

As part of the rebuild, the company acquired a 0.22-acre piece of adjacent property and demolished a single-family residence and detached garage. The plan calls for razing the current restaurant and building a larger one with a side-by-side drive-through and related parking, with access off Occidental Highway as well as Chicago Boulevard.